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PROF JOHN O'TOOLE



Contact Details

Organization: Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Position: CHAIR OF ARTS EDUCATION
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Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
The educational effects of theatre, including theatre for development in economically developing countries Australia
Drama and arts in educational settings, the community and tertiary education Australia
The impact of drama and peer teaching on conflict and bullying in schools Australia
Performing and creative arts venues, young people and children Cultural capital; artistic understanding; engagement; learning outcomes; cultural citizenship Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Hong Kong The Hong Kong Institute of Education Research
Finland University of Jyvaskyla Research
Finland University of Vaasa Research
Hong Kong Hong Kong Arts Centre Research
Hong Kong Education and Manpower Bureau Research
Hong Kong Hong Kong Drama/Theatre and Education Forum Research
Ireland The Arts Council Research
United States of America American Alliance of Theatre and Education Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
BA (Hons) University of Cambridge 30-Jun-1962
MA University of Cambridge 30-Jun-1965
Graduate Diploma in Drama in Education University of Durham 30-Jun-1970
MEd University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 30-Jun-1977
PhD The University of Queensland 30-Jun-1990

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Griffith University Excellence in Teaching Award for Research Higher Degree Supervision 01-Jan-2005

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
SUSTAINING CULTURE: THE ROLE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE Chief Investigator GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2005

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
RESEARCH INTO AND EVALUATION OF PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN SCHOOLS AND THE PROFESSIONAL ARTS SECTOR: STAGE 1 Chief Investigator DEPT OF PREMIER & CABINET 13/05/2008
RESEARCH INTO AND EVALUATION OF PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN SCHOOLS AND THE PROFESSIONAL ARTS SECTOR - STAGE 2 Chief Investigator DEPT OF PREMIER & CABINET 19/12/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Books

  • Drama and Curriculum: A Giant at the Door
    Year: 2009
    Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media(New York)
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  • Education in the Arts: Teaching and Learning in the Contemporary Curriculum
    Year: 2009
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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Book Chapters

  • Doorway Politics: Cracking an Education System


    Year: 2009
    Book: Drama and Curriculum: A Giant at the Door
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  • Past, Present and Futures: Which Door Next?


    Year: 2009
    Book: Drama and Curriculum: A Giant at the Door
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  • Art Embodied and Disembodied: Expression, Representation, and Reflection
    Year: 2009
    Book: Education in the Arts: Teaching and Learning in the Contemporary Curriculum
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • Art, Creativity, and Motivation
    Year: 2009
    Book: Education in the Arts: Teaching and Learning in the Contemporary Curriculum
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • Civil Wars
    Year: 2009
    Book: Drama and Curriculum: A Giant at the Door
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  • Curriculum: The House that Jack Built
    Year: 2009
    Book: Drama and Curriculum: A Giant at the Door
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  • Drama and Language
    Year: 2009
    Book: Drama and Curriculum: A Giant at the Door
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  • Drama as Pedagogy
    Year: 2009
    Book: Drama and Curriculum: A Giant at the Door
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  • Drama for Development and Expression
    Year: 2009
    Book: Drama and Curriculum: A Giant at the Door
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  • Drama: Social Dreaming in the Twenty-first Century
    Year: 2009
    Book: Education in the Arts: Teaching and Learning in the Contemporary Curriculum
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • Multi-literacies and the Arts
    Year: 2009
    Book: Education in the Arts: Teaching and Learning in the Contemporary Curriculum
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • Strange Bedfellows: Drama and Education
    Year: 2009
    Book: Drama and Curriculum: A Giant at the Door
    Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media(New York)
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  • Teaching Through the Arts
    Year: 2009
    Book: Education in the Arts: Teaching and Learning in the Contemporary Curriculum
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • The Three Pillars of Art
    Year: 2009
    Book: Drama and Curriculum: A Giant at the Door
    Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media(New York)
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  • Valuing the Visual Arts
    Year: 2009
    Book: Education in the Arts: Teaching and Learning in the Contemporary Curriculum
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • When worlds collude: exploring the relationship between the actual, the dramatic and the virtual
    Year: 2009
    Book: Drama Education with Digital Technology: Educati0on and Digital Technology Series
    Publisher: Continuum(London)
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Process, Dialogue and Performance: The Dramatic Art of English Teaching


    Year: 2008
    Book: Drama and English Teaching: Imagination, Action and Engagement
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Learning in Dramatic and Virtual Worlds: What Do Students Say About Complementarity and Future Directions?


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Aesthetic Education
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 89-104
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  • Plato, You're Wrong: The importance of artful, playful and dramatic teaching
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Education and Theatre
    Volume: March 2008
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 43-48
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Proteus, the Giant at the Door: Drama and theatre in the curriculum


    Year: 2007
    Book: International Handbook of Research in Arts Education: Part One
    Publisher: Springer(Dordrecht)
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Journal Articles

  • Ace in the hole with Alice: Arts and play in twenty-first century education


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Artistic and Creative Education
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 5-40
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  • Teaching Shakespeare: Why Shakespeare still matters in school
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Teacher: The National Education Magazine
    Volume: October
    Page numbers: 46-49
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • Doing Drama Research: Stepping into enquiry in drama, theatre and education
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Drama Australia
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  • Asking Better Questions
    Year: 2006
    Book: Asking Better Questions
    Publisher: Pembroke Publishers(Ontario)
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  • Reengagement Through Peer Teaching Drama. Insights into Reflective Practice
    Year: 2006
    Book: Reflective Practices in Arts Education
    Publisher: Springer
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  • Walkas in the Mosaic: Emerging Patterns of Drama and Theatre Education, IDEA 2004 - Epilogue
    Year: 2006
    Book: Universal Mosaic of Drama and Theatre: The IDEA 2004 Dialogues
    Publisher: IDEA Publications
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Journal Articles

  • Eating Grandma: A Process approach to Drama Planning and Some Unfinished Materials, Years 1-12
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Drama Queensland
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 35-41
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  • Editorial: IDEA Journal/Applied Theatre Researcher
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Applied Theatre Researcher - IDEA Journal
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 1-2
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Cooling Conflict: A new approach to managing bullying and conflict in schools
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Pearson Education Australia(Frenchs Forest)
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  • Dramawise
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Heinemann(Port Melbourne)
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  • Pretending to Learn: Helping Children Learn Through Drama (Chinese Edition)
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    Publisher: Healthy Growth Foundation

Book Chapters

  • From DRACON to Cooling Conflicts to Acting Against Bullying
    Year: 2005
    Book: Bridging the Fields of Drama and Conflict Management: Empowering students to handle conflicts through school-based programmes
    Publisher: Malmo University, School of Teacher Education(Barseback)
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Journal Articles

  • Acting against conflict and bullying. The Brisbane DRACON project 1996-2004 - emergent findings and outcomes
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Research in Drama Education
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 269-284
    Publisher: Routledge
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  • Editorial
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Applied Theatre Researcher - IDEA Journal
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: Griffith University(Brisbane)
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  • Enhance forum theatre: Where Boal's theatre of the oppressed meets process drama in the classroom
    Year: 2005
    Journal: NJ - Drama Australia Journal
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 49-58
    Publisher: National Association for Drama Education
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The giant at the door - establishing drama in educational contexts
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 2005 Taipai Children's Arts Festival
    Conference Publication: Taiwan Education Drama/Theatre International Forum
    Page numbers: 6-18
    Publisher: Arts Development Association of Taiwan(Taipei)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Pretending to Learn - Helping children learn through drama (Danish Edition)
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    Publisher: Drama(Grasten)

Journal Articles

  • Illuminated texts: from Homer to the Home-page
    Year: 2004
    Journal: NJ - Drama Australia Journal
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 5-13
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Schools, Reform and Drama: Make a Rhetoric Real
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 'Theatre in School' Conference 2002
    Conference Publication: Building the Capacity of Drama/Theatre Education: Proceedings of the Theatre in School Conference 2002
    Page numbers: 114-125
    Publisher: International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong)(Hong Kong)
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Publications in 2003

Publications in 2002

Books

  • Come A Teatro (Dramawise - Italian Version)
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    Publisher: Ghisetti e Corvi Editori(Milano)
  • Pretending To Learn: Helping Children Learn through Drama
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Pearson Education Australia(Frenchs Forest)
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Journal Articles

  • Cycles of Harmony: Action research into the effects of drama on conflict management in schools
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Applied Theatre Researcher - IDEA Journal
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 2002
    Page numbers: 1-10
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  • Drama: The Productive Pedagogy
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Melbourne Studies in Education
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 39-52
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  • Scenes at the Top Down Under: drama in higher education in Australia
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Research in Drama Education
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 114-121
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Passport to Presentability - Drama and Theatre in Schools in and Beyond Hong Kong
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Vision in a Time of Change. Hong Kong Theatre & Education Conference 2000
    Conference Publication: Vision in a Time of Change: Hong Kong Theatre & Education Conference 2000
    Page numbers: 066-074
    Publisher: International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong)(Hong Kong)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Pilgrims' Progress
    Year: 2001
    Book: Playing Betwixt and Between: The IDEA Dialogues 2001
    Publisher: IDEA Publications(Bergen)
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